Brian Austin

Built by a Japanese modeler. Pictures of the layout from various angles. (Text in Japanese) http://www.ecodacs2.nerima.tokyo.jp/rehsi/essya-ensenhuukei.html How it was built (Text in Japanese) http://www.ecodacs2.nerima.tokyo.jp/rehsi/essyasen.html

Those might be renderings. Back when Deloreans were new a neighbor had one. My friends and I thought it was like a space ship.

I think my late mother was the bigger NASCAR fan in my family. I still have a few VHS cassettes with races taped of TV. I was always more interested in archival film footage of old races. ?

(From a collection of cartoons published in PUNCH magazine, dating to the 1940s.)

I was reminded of some cartoons I'd seen in old magazines.

Fetching a crashed car would be complicated I'd think.

The actual race was fun to watch, the music performances not so much. This style of racing is a fun change of pace from the other tracks.

Les Barker was a British humorist and poet who just recently passed away. Back in the 1990s I saw a performance of his at a house concert. I still have two books I purchased then of his writings. He did not sing or play an instrument, but his songs were covered by well-known folk musicians over the years. Here Tom Paxton performs Les' parody of the old traditional song "Will The Circle Be Unbroken". There are also numerous videos on YT of Les himself reading his quite often humorous poetry.

My guess would be that Spittier was a person who was involved with the development of the fitting. Google has infuriated me for years, for various reasons.

Seven seasons! For any show that's a good run. There used to be a joke that at seven seasons the real money would be coming in with syndication. Sadly for me, Jay's show was on one of those channels I kept forgetting about, and so only caught a few episodes over the years.

There's this thing called "humor"...

The ramp truck already has the one ton wheels, so other F350s wouldn't be out of the question. ?

Do you guys still check eBay for car listings? For many years that used to be a go-to source for reference (whole cars or just parts), then some time ago I became frustrated with search results.

Agreed. Sure there is. A hard drive packed with reference isn't helpful if it isn't organized. ?

Toronado/Eldorado car haulers appear to not be all that uncommon. They show up in internet postings of custom ramp trucks and such.

Those scenes can be seen in the episode "Move And You're Dead" YouTube video posted above.

Maybe in the end it's a kind of keyhole saw? Regardless, I hope to find a pack of those blades soon.

This appears to be the blade in question: https://excelblades.com/products/13-fine-saw-blade-5-pcs?_pos=17&_sid=3c2e51dc1&_ss=r

While there are several 1:24 / 1:25 scale diecast trucks with old-style hand-crank tow booms, AMT offered a tow truck option with their 1934 Ford truck kits, which has been reissued recently.

You can probably adapt this Crown Premiums tow truck. The tow body is fairly correct for the era, and the wheels and tires are pretty good. https://crownpremiums.com/124-scale-1934-ford-tow-truck